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October 23, 2011
Barclays Center Construction Offset By "Works In Progress" Art Installation
NY1
By Jeanine Ramirez
From the "Putting Lipstick On Pigs" department:
In the midst of the frantically paced construction and the congestion of car and foot traffic, there's a calm escape at the site of the new Barclays Center.
Twenty works by Brooklyn artists are now displayed along Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street, decorating the blue plywood set up along the arena's perimeter.
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The group also wanted to help bridge the divide the controversial project caused by displacing some neighborhood residents and businesses that sat in the footprint of the arena.
"We knew that it was being built. There wasn't much that we could do about that. And we thought if we could help somehow both the neighborhood accepting this structure and the artists,” said Durso.
NoLandGrab: Exactly how is trying to give cover to the disaster that is Atlantic Yards helpful to the neighborhood?
Posted by steve at October 23, 2011 10:33 PM